Posts made in August, 2008

How To Give

Posted by shooperman on Aug 12, 2008 in Conscious Living, Money | 9 comments

Photo by Martin Kingsley

Something happened in Singapore a couple of weeks back and it affected me greatly.

What I knew I read vaguely almost a week later from the evening papers and a discussion on a local forum:

A 15 year old boy was begging in a neighbourhood food centre when a patron called the police on him. Allegedly, he was asking for $2 to buy lunch for his ill mother. The police came and probably took him back to the police post and filed the incident. After that, they escorted him back to the void deck of his HDB (public housing in Singapore). From there, he went up another building and jumped. The boy died.

The story stuck with me for days, and nights. It wasn’t publicized much in the local papers and most of my friends hadn’t even heard about it.

I had been wondering why the story of the ‘begger boy’ (coined by the local paper) had affected me so much.

I came up with many responses to it: I talked to my friends about it, complained about the state of charity organizations in Singapore, and even thought about a startup for it.

In final analysis, I believe the story of the ‘boy’ is really trying to teach me something, something personal, something about how to give.

Why Is Abundance Attracted to Me?

Posted by shooperman on Aug 12, 2008 in Money | 1 comment

I’ve got a colleague who asked me how to be rich and contented. I told him it’s all in his relationship with money and how much attention he affords it. I don’t have a ‘technique’ now, but found something which might be helpful.